Re: Why does IDLE use a subprocess?
James Schaffler via IDLE-dev <[email protected]> Thu, 08 Jun 2023 00:28:16 +0000
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Hi Tal, On Tuesday, June 6th, 2023, Tal Einat wrote: > You're welcome to try it yourself! Run IDLE without a subprocess by > passing the "-n" flag (e.g. python -m idlelib -n), then in the shell > do things that affect the entire process in various ways. > > Some interesting examples: run a tight loop, run some long-running > code that runs compiled code rather than Python code, change global > state such as sys.stdout and sys.stderr, and on and on. Have fun > breaking IDLE! Will try! Thank you! Jim